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Closed court for boy's Bali drug case
UPDATE: 2.30PM Prosecutors in Bali have filed three drugs charges against an Australian teenager, who is expected to face court for the first time next week. A judge is expected to be appointed to the case later today, after which a date for the trial
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:14A
Murder defendant now charged with assault against corrections officer
The officer was head-butted in the face, and the force of the blow caused him to reel backwards and strike his head on a wall, according to court papers. Monson was in handcuffs and leg irons during the cell search. In Everett District Court on Tuesday
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:12A
Defense cites abuse in Conn. home invasion trial
They rested their case after calling a court clerk who detailed Komisarjevsky's extensive record of nighttime home burglaries. Prosecutors say the crimes in Cheshire were especially cruel and heinous. Donovan challenged that argument, but Judge Jon
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:11A
Long Road to Justice For a Washington Woman In Seven Year Medical Malpractice Case
While it might be seven years later, perhaps justice will be done the second time around in a case that claims that the negligent treatment, or rather lack of treatment, at the hospital by the various doctors reduced Mohr's chances of minimizing or
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:10A
Killer's appology over stabbing
who is on trial for attempted murder and wounding with intent, claimed there was a conspiracy of silence among prison staff with regard to assaults by officers on inmates. The former student and shop assistant told a jury at Newcastle Crown Court
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:09A
Killer Edward Mantour argues he can't receive death sentence
Montour is scheduled to have a new sentencing hearing before a jury in February, but a petition filed last month in federal court seeks to stop that hearing. In the petition, Montour argues that the sentencing hearing amounts to a new trial,
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:08A
Thomas Sowell: Outrage at 'bullying' is selective
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to his young leftist friend Harold Laski, pointing out that there were "a thousand-fold worse cases" involving black defendants, "but the world does not worry over them." Holmes said: "I cannot but ask
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:07A
Inquirer Editorial: Income shouldn't decide the quality of justice
In September, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court named a veteran Philadelphia judge, Benjamin Lerner, to investigate the compelling accusation of a Philadelphia-based death-penalty defense group that the courts are scrimping on justice by shortchanging the
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:07A
Police to reopen senator shoplifting case
In the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday, magistrate Kym Boxall agreed with the prosecution's argument that it had not been given enough notice of evidence from the senator's psychiatrist, Brian McKenny. Mr Boxall said evidence from Dr McKenny
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:06A
Case arising from W.Va. mine disaster wrapping up
The US District Court jury was also told that investigators retrieved boxes of security-related documents that Stover allegedly ordered dumped into the trash. Stover testified Tuesday. His defense argues he's been made a scapegoat following the
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:05A
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